http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003568722Columnists Mock Rep. Pence's 'Just Like Indiana Market' Comment on Baghdad Visit
By E&P Staff
Published: April 07, 2007 2:55 PM ET
NEW YORK While the sunny comments of Sen. John McCain after visiting the Shorja market in Baghdad last Sunday -- now partly disavowed -- have drawn the most press attention, several wags have also had a good deal of fun with the now famous sound bite offered by Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana. He said the Baghdad bazaar was "like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime."
Here are a couple of current op-eds that took off on this remark.
First, the opening and then conclusion of John Kenney in today's Los Angeles Times.
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My wife came into the living room wearing a Kevlar vest, helmet and night-vision goggles.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Have you completely forgotten, silly head? We're going to the market."
I placed my hand at my head. I'd been so caught up in stitching a minor wound I'd received earlier in the day after going to an outdoor fruit stand that I had completely forgotten....
"You kids have fun?" Carol asked.
"Yeah!" said Chip.
"He was holding a loaf of bread and it got blown out of his hand!"
"It was so awesome, Mum."
We all laughed. Really hard. That's how shopping is in Indiana in the summer. It's just fun. It's fun and safe and hopeful and full of warm and welcoming Indianans and insurgents and snipers and bombs.
"Oh darn," Carol said.
"What is it, honey?"
"We forgot milk."
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